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Photo: Deputy Prime Minister and Coordinating Minister for Economic Policies Heng Swee Keat as Guest-of-Honour, gracing the PRECISE-ILLUMINA Partnership Agreement Ceremony, on 26 May at Illumina’s Woodlands Laboratory.Photo: Deputy Prime Minister and Coordinating Minister for Economic Policies Heng Swee Keat as Guest-of-Honour, gracing the PRECISE-ILLUMINA Partnership Agreement Ceremony, on 26 May at Illumina’s Woodlands Laboratory.

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Unique large-scale population study will yield insights into Asian-specific diseases, improving population health, patient outcomes, and innovations in the local biomedical technology industry.

 

Originally published on PRECISE

SINGAPORE, May 31, 2022 /CSRwire/ – Precision Health Research, Singapore (PRECISE), the central entity implementing Singapore’s National Precision Medicine (NPM) strategy, and Illumina, Inc (Illumina), a leader in genomics technology, announced today a strategic partnership to sequence and analyze 100,000 Singaporean whole genomes (SG100K), to create for the first time, Southeast Asia’s most comprehensive consented population study.

2. Precision Medicine has been identified by Singapore’s Ministry of Health as one of the potential innovative approaches to transform healthcare and address healthcare challenges, and also by the National Research Foundation, Singapore (NRF) as a strategic goal of the Research, Innovation and Enterprise (RIE) 2025 plan to transform and protect the health of Singaporeans. PRECISE, funded by NRF, collaborates with Singapore research and clinical partners to implement and coordinate this effort nationally.

3. The SG100K project, supported under Open Fund – Large Collaborative Grant1, will involve 100,000 consented Singaporean participants, comprising Chinese, Malay and Indian, representative of 80% of the populations across Asia. 

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